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Māyāpur, India – February 28, 1972

Bob: I’ve asked devotees about how they feel toward sex in their relations, and I see the way they feel, …

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Bob: I’ll be getting married at the end of this summer, in September or August when I return to America. …

Śrīla Prabhupāda: The Vedic principle is that one should avoid sex life altogether. The whole Vedic principle is to get …

Bob: Attachment between man and woman?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes. So if you want to get liberation from this material world, then that attachment should be reduced …

So, this basic principle of increasing attachment is not our business, although it is the general tendency. Gṛha, kṣetra, suta …

The Indian system calls for varṇa and āśrama – four social orders and four spiritual orders. Brahmacarya [celibate student life], …

even if one has the tendency to enjoy material life, he is so nicely molded that at last he achieves …

[Chanting starts somewhere in the background, with exotic mṛdaṅga drumbeats amid laughing and the loud blowing of horns.]

It is said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam [5.5.8]:

puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etaṁ tayor mitho hṛdaya-granthim āhuḥ ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho ’yam ahaṁ mameti

This sex life is the basic principle of material life – attachment for man or woman. And when a man …

Bob: What is that again?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: The attachment increases. The material attachment involves thinking “I am this body, and because I have this body …

So this science is not known in the world – how the soul is transmigrating from one body to another, …

aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ

“You are talking like a learned man, but you are fool number one because you are talking about the bodily …

Bob: To reduce it over the stages of your life?